Kristin Poling, Ph.D.
Teaching Areas:
HistoryResearch Areas:
Europe / European History, Social and Cultural Factors, Urban HistoryBiography and Education
Dr. Poling is an assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Dr. Poling teaches classes on German and world history and historical research methods. She also teaches in the Honors program, and serves as a faculty advisor for the history student group, Phi Alpha Theta.
Education
Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 2011
M.A., History, Harvard University, 2005
B.A., History and German, Washington University in St. Louis, 2003
Teaching and Research
Courses Taught
- HIST 103: The World since 1500
- HIST 333: The Age of Revolutions in Europe and the World
- HIST 343: Germany before Hitler
- HIST 389: Nazi Germany
- HIST 3368: Germany since 1945
- HIST 3380: European Cities, 1750-2000
- HIST 4999: Senior Research Seminar
Research
Dr. Poling's research areas include the urban and environmental histories of Germany and the United States.
Selected Publications
Germany’s Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
“A Walhalla in the Wasteland: Carl Ernest Schmidt and the Quest of One German-American Businessman to Save Michigan’s Forests,” Michigan Historical Review 46, no. 2 (Fall 2020): 1-30.
“Berlin, Frontier City: The Lenné Triangle Incident and West Berlin’s Frontier Zone in the 1980s,” in The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity, 31-44. Edited by Andreas Luescher and Carolyn Loeb. Ashgate, 2015.
“Shantytowns and Pioneers Beyond the City Wall: Berlin’s Urban Frontier in the Nineteenth Century,“ Central European History 47 (2014): 245-274.